English translation of the STTS tagset

Question

The most common part-of-speech tagset for German is the STTS tagset. I need an English translation of the explanations for each tag. Not being a linguist I don't feel comfortable (let alone qualified) for translating this myself.

Google turned up nothing, so any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

There's nothing here that is surprising if you know English linguistic terminology. If not, this may not have helped

ADJA attributive adjective [das] große [Haus] = [the] big [house] ADJD adverbial or predicative adjective [er fährt] schnell, [er ist] schnell = [he drives] quickly, [he is quick] (CB "quickly" and "quick" are both "schnell"

ADV Adverb schon, bald, doch = already, soon, doch has no English equivalent

APPR Preposition, left part of circumposition in [der Stadt], ohne [mich] APPRART Preposition with article folded in im [Haus], zur [Sache] APPO Postposition [ihm] zufolge, [der Sache] wegen APZR Right part of circumposition [von/APPR jetzt] an/APZR

ART definite or indefinite article der, die, das, ein, eine

CARD cardinal number zwei [Männer], [im Jahre] 1994

FM foreign word [Er hat das mit ``] A big fish ['' übersetzt]

ITJ interjection mhm, ach, tja

KOUI subordinating conjunction with ``zu'' and infinitive um [zu leben], anstatt [zu fragen] KOUS subordinating conjunction with sentence weil, daß, damit, wenn, ob KON coordinating conjunction und, oder, aber KOKOM comparative conjunction als, wie

NN common noun Tisch, Herr, [das] Reisen NE proper noun Hans, Hamburg, HSV

PDS demonstrative pronoun that substitutes dieser, jener PDAT demonstrative pronoun that adds an attribute jener [Mensch]

PIS indefinite pronoun that substitutes keiner, viele, man, niemand PIAT indefinite pronoun that adds an attribute, no article kein [Mensch], irgendein [Glas] PIDAT indefinite pronoun that adds an attribute, with article [ein] wenig [Wasser], [die] beiden [Brüder]

PPER non-reflexive personal pronoun ich, er, ihm, mich, dir

PPOSS substituting possessive pronoun meins, deiner PPOSAT attribute adding posessive pronoun mein [Buch], deine [Mutter]

PRELS substituting relative pronoun [der Hund ,] der PRELAT attribute adding relative pronoun [der Mann ,] dessen [Hund]

PRF reflexive personal pronoun sich, einander, dich, mir

PWS substituting interrogative pronoun wer, was PWAT attribute adding interrogative pronoun welche [Farbe], wessen [Hut] PWAV adverbial interrogative or relative pronoun warum, wo, wann, worüber, wobei

PAV pronominal adverb dafür, dabei, deswegen, trotzdem

PTKZU ``zu'' before infinitive zu [gehen] PTKNEG Negation particle nicht PTKVZ particle part of separable verb [er kommt] an, [er fährt] rad PTKANT answer particle ja, nein, danke, bitte PTKA particle associated with adverb or adjective am [schönsten], zu [schnell]

TRUNC first member of compound noun An- [und Abreise]

VVFIN full finite verb [du] gehst, [wir] kommen [an] VVIMP full imperative komm [!] VVINF full infinitive gehen, ankommen VVIZU full infinitive with "zu" anzukommen, loszulassen VVPP full past participle gegangen, angekommen VAFIN auxilliary finite verb [du] bist, [wir] werden VAIMP auxilliary imperative sei [ruhig !] VAINF auxilliary infinitive werden, sein VAPP auxilliary past participle gewesen VMFIN modal finite verb dürfen VMINF modal infinitive wollen VMPP modal past participle gekonnt, [er hat gehen] können

XY Non word with special characters in 3:7, H2O, D2XW3

\$, comma , \$. sentence ending punctuation . ? ! ; : \$( other sentence signs; sentence internal - ,

Hope that helps a bit

Answer 2

A document providing an English description and some examples for the STTS tagset is available in the website of the University of Cambridge (it is unclear to me what is the original source of the paper).

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~sht25/papers/stts.pdf